ANNEX 1
POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL USES OF GENETICALLY
ENGINEERED ORGANISMS
Improve nutritional quality of food crops.
Decrease dependence on chemical pesticides by
construction of effective microbial pesticides.
Increase plant tolerance and resistance to pathogens
and pests.
Decrease crop sensitivity to chemicals such as
herbicides.
Increase plant tolerance to environmental stresses.
Increase crops yields by manipulating photosynthesis.
Water pollution reduction.
Decomposition of organic wastes.
Cloud seeding, snow making.
Mining: bacterial retrieval of low-concentaction
metals.
Increased energy production from organic biomass.
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